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Posts made by amischiefr
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RE: "Real World" Java Development?
@PhillS said:
Part of the problem is the proliferation of tools - there are hundreds of Java web frameworks (Tapestry, JSF, Struts 2, Spring MVC, ...).
Don't forget jBanana.
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RE: Bad website design
@AlpineR said:
Please select the option which best describes your ethnic origin: Required
British
Irish
White and Black Caribbean
White and Black African
White and Asian
Indian
Pakistani
Bangladeshi
Caribbean
African
Chinese
Gypsy/Traveller
Other
Refused
I'm Polish-German, you insensitive clod!Yeah I always laugh at the US Census form, it's worse. They have like 4-5 different Asian (chinese asain, pacific asain, ect..), they have Alaskan Eskimo, north american indian, 4 different types of hispanics, all kinds of other races and then... White. They just sum up every single nationality that has fair skin into White after going through several different versions of Asian and others.
They should just have Black, Brown, Yellow, Tan and White.
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RE: "Real World" Java Development?
Here where i work we have some sort of "standard" (loosly enforced):
CVS
Eclipse
Maven 2
JSP with Struts 1.X framework and Hibernate for DAO entity beans
All sitting on Apache Tomcat 5.5 (soon moving to 6)
Although my team is going to start using JSF to get away from the Struts 1.X
Most shops that I know of use Tomcat servers (on some Linux brew), some type of framework (Struts, Spring ect), Maven and either SVN or CVS.
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RE: Ass is not allowed!
Wow, they are filtering locations for swear words? I could see if they were filtering out cities like Fuckville or Shittown. Maybe they are too cheap / lazy to get some kind of valid city list (www.cencus.gov has one for free!). Guess you're gonna have to move over here to Jax so you don't have that problem.
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RE: Car WTF
Ha, only steers and queers huh? Well, I think you have found a guy who is both!!!
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RE: OO - The *other* end of the spectrum
@obediah said:
*rant rant, yada yada*
Way to go back several days later and beat the dead, decomposed horse some more, you know: just for good measure. I already came back and said essentially that I was wrong and misunderstood his post. Did you really need to justify your existance on this planet? Not getting enough love at home? Maybe you have no friends and you're hoping LordOfPigs will come over and rub your Pokemon balls.
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RE: Credit Card Application WTF
@belgariontheking said:
Also, for the record, I didn't bother to calculate the interest rate on your example transaction.
910% interest? I'm in the wrong business.
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RE: OO - The *other* end of the spectrum
@durendal.mk3 said:
{a bunch of self righteousness}
I sincerely hope the two of us never write code on the same project.
Me neither.
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RE: OO - The *other* end of the spectrum
@tdb said:
@amischiefr said:
@pscs said:
I think you might need to go back to class instead. A hashmap will be many times slower than an array in this instance.
Made bold for the reading impaired.
Sure, for this instance
However, we are talking about Java in this thread. My knowledge of the language is limited, but I know that it only allows integers as array indices, and uses zero-based indexing. This gives a very strong hint that a sensible JVM is likely to use real arrays for the implementation. There's some additional cushioning such as range checks which make access a bit slower than in C, but still much faster than a hash map.I left the bold in there for you, and I will type slowly so you understand... (Go ahead and take 2 minutes to reread this)
IF you know the exact index in an array then yes of course they are faster. For LOOKUP they are NOT faster. If you have to find element X in an array (not index n) and element X in a HashMap you will find the HashMap to be much faster than checking EVERY element in the arry until you find the specific item you are looking for.
I admit, going back and rereading his original post that I misunderstood what he was suggesting. That since the key values are 0x09 - 0x?? (under 150), and that they are basically reducing hashing to a simlpe numeric order, that using a Java HashMap will indeed be slower. Not MUCH slower, but still... slower.
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RE: OO - The *other* end of the spectrum
@pscs said:
I think you might need to go back to class instead. A hashmap will be many times slower than an array in this instance.
Made bold for the reading impaired.
Sure, for this instance using an indexed array may be a "faster" solution, not worth mentioning because who gives a shit: the speed difference between the two will be so small it will not slow down anything. However his statement of "arrays are faster than hashmaps" is completely fucking retarded, and incorrect. And that was what I was refering to in my statement.
If he has said "for this instance, using numbers 1 - 150 as indexes, arrays will be faster" I wouldn't have said anything, but that isn't what he said.
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RE: OO - The *other* end of the spectrum
@LordOfThePigs said:
Granted this could have been made faster by using an array instead of a HashMap to make the lookup trivial, but that really doesn't make me want to cry out wtf.
Did you just suggest that they could use an Array over a HashMap for retrieval? You honestly believe that lookup is "faster" in an Array over a HashMap? Right there you lost the argument and whatever else you said is not even worth reading. Please go back to class and stop ditching Introduction to Programming 101 just to post on here.
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RE: Vista Purdiness
@Welbog said:
@belgariontheking said:
Have you tried the new Winkey-tab hotness?
Not everyone's keyboard has a Windows key, you insensitive bastard!Are you using a keyboard built in 1982? Sure I haven't seen all of the keyboards out there, but I haven't seen one in the last 10 years that didn't have a windows key. Stop using that Mac keyboard with your Windows box, it's against the EULA!! Then again, all of the computers I have a designed to run windows, and come with windows installed so... </shrug>
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RE: Credit Card Application WTF
@danixdefcon5 said:
Ironically, my "low interest rate" CC has been upping its interest rate (used to be 22%, it is somewhere near 33% this month) while my single most expensive CC slashed its rate from 54% to 28%. So now, my "expensive" credit card is now the cheapest one of the lot.
Jesus Christ!! I hope you never use those things! Are those "normal" rates in Mexico City?
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RE: A very funny interview
@Welbog said:
@amischiefr said:
we ALL have to use google / boards at some time or another (espicially us Java guys).
Because Java keywords are harder to remember than any other languages'? Justify your bold statement.I say that because Java has so many different frameworks and third party jar files that get used that it is impossible to know all of the tag libraries and idiosyncrasies. If you are using .NET, for the most part, you are using the standard Microsoft libraries, and if you have been doing it for a while you know them fairly well. I mean seriously, do you find yourself looking up keywords (and by keywords I mean the ones you can't use for variable names within the language, not the frameworks tags)?
Where I work we have applications built in Spring MVC, Struts 1.X, Grails, Tapestry and JSF. I have to frequently google how to do something specific for the Tapestry app because I don't know it that well yet. I even find myself looking up stuff for Spring specific items as well. Do you know every single tag and how they all work for the above listed frameworks? I sure don't, and I am pretty sure that 99% of developers out there don't know them all either. And I bet that a .NET guy with the same time programming in .NET as I have in Java doesn't have to look things up a fraction of the time that I do.
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RE: Spanish TDWTF?
@Xelort said:
Oh, come on! Just ignore that we're-the-top-X-of-the-world, i-need-google latino troll.
I'm from Argentina. We speak spanish here, and i'm also coursing my licenciate degree in letters (kinda linguistics). I can say without any fear or being wrong that English is like a de-facto Esperanto. It's even a requirement for most of us developers; specs are hardly ever in spanish and anyone in the world know that, international coustomers usually (activelly) speak english... and what the hell is that google bullshit? Google language tools are lame: u can NEVER rely on that, and there are better tools on the web. It's just ridiculous to say "many of us use the Google translator to read texts in another language", because ANY of us that have already tried know that it simply does not work: it translates garbage, and u can't read shit.
If there's something more annoying that trolling, that's propaganda. Wanna spanish TDWTF? Sure! Why the hell not? But don't give me that "spanish is important" crap; just make the damn site.
Alright, so why did you quote me retard? I didn't say anything about using Google translators, and I certainly didn't say anything about Spanish being important :p
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RE: A very funny interview
@DOA said:
What is he being interviewed for, a programmer position or stand up comedy?
Maybe he was being pressured to find a solution in a timely manor. No programmer knows everything, and we ALL have to use google / boards at some time or another (espicially us Java guys). Maybe they wanted to see if he was smart enough to find a quick easy knock-knock joke.
Really people, as said before in this thread already, you need to get off of this "only ask me questions like: 'what is the difference between inherritence and composition?' questions!!!" type of bullshit. They ask you other kinds of questions for a reason: they are trying to see what, besides programming, you can do. I.E. in this case use the internet to find a solution to a problem.
Either that or they actually were wearing bobo costumes and red noses.
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RE: Spanish TDWTF?
@PJH said:
Now if that was a link about how widely they were spoken (most countries it's spoken in, for example) then I'd perhaps agree with you, but it's ranking based on total number of speakers, which brings me back to my question which you thought was 'wrong' for some reason - what's more widespread than English?
Your link suggests that Mandarin's the one spoken by the most (native) speakers, but I'm willing to guess that the vast majority of those people are in China, and certainly doesn't take into account of people with 'MSL.'
[Words bolded for the hard of reading.]
I agree, the post was 90% sarcastic (look at the tags). The numbers are WAY off. They have English at 309 Million. Hell, there are 309 Million US citizens alone ( I know not ALL speak english, but the majority of citizens do, which is what the 300 Mil+ is a record of). Do they not take into account South Africa, England, Irland...? Whomever made that wiki was pulling numbers out of their ass.
And that's not even taking into account the Millions of people all over the world who are not native speakers of English, but speak it fluently. I know quite a few Belgians that speak English flawlessly.
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RE: Spanish TDWTF?
@PJH said:
@tster said:
What's more widespread than English? This started off as a snarkey question, but after thinking about spanish and derivitives, then possibly Latin in the christian countries (amongst the higher ups in said religion,) I'm not sure...@ucvletras9 said:
I would like it expand into the second most widespread language in the world.
It is already available in English!
Assuming we're talking spoken languages and not going over to computer ones....
Although it depends on the web site you go to. Some have English as number 2, some Hindi, some Spanish </shrug>
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RE: Google search "latest ubuntu release"
I don't know about you, but that site sounds a lot more interesting than the second one.
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RE: Credit Card Application WTF
@DWalker59 said:
It doesn't sound logical that getting a mortgage and never being late on a single payment, on the mortgage or any credit cards, should lower your credit score by 75 points!
No, it doesn't. I thought that getting a mortgage actually raised your credit score (being as you now have actual capital as oposed to revolving outstanding credit).
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RE: Credit Card Application WTF
@Carnildo said:
@danixdefcon5 said:
Note my location. I've already seen one bank collapse back in '94/'95 (Banca Confia); assets were sold, but Credit Card debts went poof.
Are Mexicans
bankersreally that stupid? Debts are a bank's most valuable assets. If credit card debts are cancelled when a bank goes under, somebody's letting a hell of a lot of money slip through their fingers.FTFY, and did you really have to ask...
Good painters? Yes, Bankers? Not so much.
Just immagine driving by the local Home Depot with your pickup truck and yelling "TRABAJAR PARA LA BANK!!" See how many jump in.
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RE: On avatars
@arty said:
@amischiefr said:
Hahahahah, being a vet and a geek I loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it. I was a little worried that somebody might take offense. In the end I couldn't resist giving my avatar a proper presentation.
Thanks for serving as well.
Don't thank me, thank my recruiter!
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RE: Room 404
@agtrier said:
Why, WTF, did they assign me, the webmaster, this new room as an office, I wonder... :-/
Oh fuck off, I'm still in a cube!!! Stop bitching before they put you back in a developers place: the cube!!
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RE: Morphic Resonance
[quote user="Renan "C#" Sousa"]... or tries to double- encrypt something with Base64/ROT13, the chances that someone else might do just that too increase.[/quote]
Yeah, I have a vendor that is insisting that when we send them a file we must first PGP encrypt it, then send if via SFTP over a VPN connection...
Maybe they read a shitty article about security, maybe they are just paranoid. </shrug>
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RE: PHP code: Magic numbers, cool functions and useful stuff
@DOA said:
Because if you put it in the request scope it goes away, if you put it in the session it has to be manually removed or it persists forever. Look at it like this: request is like automatic garbage collection and session is like C style memory management. I know, pesto will come along and tear my analogy apart, but I just can't help using them!@morbiuswilters said:
I also avoid putting anything into session if I can help it as it tends to be the wrong way of maintaining state. State should either be passed explicitly with the request or pulled from the database, not stored in session.
How come?When the user posts a request for information from the server there is no need to place it onto the session, it should go on the request.
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RE: Average age of TDWTF'ers
@galgorah said:
It's a cannibal joke that apperently went over your head. While not exactly the funniest of quips I shall admit, it is however easily ignored if one is so inclined.
Oh? I thought it was a lame vampire joke </shrug>
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RE: PayPal self-contradicting WTF
@bstorer said:
@bjolling said:
The point is that MS pro-actively has to think about how their actions affect to market in which they are overly dominant, because of their dominace. The 800 pound gorilla has to tread careful in a room full of mice.
Only if the gorilla cares about the mice, which he has no reason to do. They pose him no threat, let them scurry around. Some may be crushed, but others may find crumbs under the sofa where the gorilla can't reach. What the EU wants to do is to interfere in this process and punish the gorilla for having the audacity to be bigger.That pretty much sums up the entire argument. Way to take all of the stupid analogies (started by me, I know) and make sense of them.
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RE: Obfuscated and Obscene
Oh yeah, that would be obscene. They would have to call getMember(), not able to touch it directly. What a sad day for morbs :(
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RE: Obfuscated and Obscene
@bstorer said:
@morbiuswilters said:
Private? So you only permit your member to be invoked by yourself?
Friends can access his private member, too.Not to mention anybody in his extended family.
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RE: Obfuscated and Obscene
@morbiuswilters said:
@db2 said:
Hey baby. Want to invoke my private member?
Private? So you only permit your member to be invoked by yourself?
My member has public access, fool.
Nice, but now you have left yourself open for a virus.
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RE: PayPal self-contradicting WTF
@Monomelodies said:
@amischiefr said:
I mean come on FFS, it's not like you HAVE to use IE, you can get your OS and download FF or Chrome or w/e.
No you can't, at least not if you use Windows. One cannot uninstall IE (well, okay, you can with a lot of trouble and if you don't mind some things breaking). It's still there, lurking in the background, being vulnerable to attacks.
So you can't uninstall it... How exactly, if you don't use it because you installed FF, and you set FF to your default browser, is it a "vulnerability"?
@Monomelodies said:
@amischiefr said:
They have the right to distribute their OS with thier browser
No they don't. They manufacture both the platform as well as the software, so they need to tread carefully.
Yes, yes they do. You may have a case to tell them that they have to allow for the removal of IE, but you have no right to tell them they can't include IE with their OS. What basis do you have to tell them they can't?
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RE: Password expiration policy
@vr602 said:
They are in a tatty notebook in my drawer, about 3 pages in from the back, so fairly hard to find.
Not so hard to find now...
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RE: Obfuscated and Obscene
Ohh yaeh, like "Nerds Gone Wild" or some shit. That would be hawt!
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RE: PayPal self-contradicting WTF
@bjolling said:
@Aaron said:
I don't think that you understand what "monopoly" means.@rohypnol said:
I don't think that the EU understands what "competition" means.Hopefully, we'll be able to get rid of it pretty soon - at least in the EU...
Oh come on, not this argument again. MS owns Windows, MS owns IE. They have the right to distribute their OS with thier browser the same way that Ford can use Ford breaks (or any part for that matter) with their cars. Or are you trying to tell me that Ford has to use Dodge parts in their cars?
I mean come on FFS, it's not like you HAVE to use IE, you can get your OS and download FF or Chrome or w/e.
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RE: Go to sleep, now, you little fool
The really stupid part is that all they do is spin and waste resources instead of actually giving up the processor. Sitting and spinning != sleep. Were they really that concurrency retarded to not realize that?
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RE: Shhh, please let Mysql sleep and p_forsale
@morbiuswilters said:
I read the whole thing and... wow...
Just... wow..
Wow doesn't do it justice...
<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">But let's think about three important words here. "Fifteen hours ago". That means one of two things. Clark Kent either drank this carton of milk fifteen hours before Dick Grayson was kidnapped by Batman, and thus it is a magical prescient carton of milk, OR it's actually been a long enough ride in the Batmobile for Dick to have been reported missing, for his name to get to the missing persons groups, for them to submit his information to the milk company, for the milk company to print the cartons, distribute the cartons, and then for Clark Kent to go to the grocery store and buy the carton of milk. Let's see, by my rough estimate, that means that Batman and Dick have been on the way to the Batcave for, oh, about FIVE FUCKING WEEKS now. </font>
Nice...
And I love the kid "that's so queer" and the classic "shut up!" from Batman. Hahahahahahaha, was this written by a 12 year old kid?
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RE: Shhh, please let Mysql sleep and p_forsale
@morbiuswilters said:
This thread is now about Alan Moore, his comics and the terrible movie adaptations thereof.Since Spectate Swamp is back I just saw this little piece Swamp Thing and thought it went along nicely with the Alan Moore theme... :)
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RE: More New Coke Math
@Anon Ymous said:
Back when pepsi did its original "Pepsi Stuff" campaign (where you tore the points off packages and mailed them in), my family collected over 100,000 points in a few weeks. We ordered at least one of everything in their catalogue, dozens of shirts and other things.
Wow, so your family is so poor that you guys go around scavaging trash and recycle recepticles for points in order to put clothes on your back? Kenny, is this you?
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RE: Average age of TDWTF'ers
@bjolling said:
But I registered this forum 4 days before you did. So not only did I catch up but I even surpassed you ;-)
Oh crap, I didn't even notice that. Now it's getting kind of creepy, are you stalking me? Long lost twin? What's next, do we have the same wedding date?
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RE: QUIS?
I've only seen silly questions like this on an IQ test before. Maybe they wanted to see if you could add? </shrug>
What kind of job was this for?
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RE: Just a minor WTF
@Lacutis said:
Does anyone else feel the irony? Or are we only against jpeg screenshots? I forget which bandwagon we are on.
No, he was the one who bashed the guys complaining about the jpeg images. He was never oposed to them. You have the anti-jpeg guys who think TRWTF is using jpeg images, and you have rohypnol and I who really don't give a crap.
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RE: Just a minor WTF
@Spectre said:
No. It's because JPEG screenshots look awful and often take more space. You have to make screenshots PNG, not everything, at least when they are mostly text. It's not like it's difficult to select a different option when saving.
<font size="1">Call me elitist and whiny but JPEG screenshots are wrong wrong wrong.</font>
Sure, it's not hard to select a different option to save the file as, agreed. But you derailed a thread because you didn't like the format of the screenshot file... As far as looking awful, it doesn't look pixilated to me. The scale looks fine. Maybe its my eyesite, but I can't tell the difference between the JPEG image and the PNG one I created just now for reference.
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RE: Just a minor WTF
@Spectre said:
For the love of ammoQ, stop making JPEG screenshots!!
Really? Who gives a shit. Is your computer really so slow that it takes more than .5 seconds to render a JPEG? It's not like I posted 100 of them so it took 20 seconds for the page to render. I didn't realize that I had to make everything a PNG. Oh noes! Don't use the JPEG format, the internets can't handle one single JPEG!!!
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Just a minor WTF
I would expect better from a website that is all about creating bigger, faster and more reliable websites.
I really want to buy the Ma Gu Mo book, but I'm not sure if it's worth the $2.
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RE: Average age of TDWTF'ers
29 (for the 4th year in a row!!!)
Played with my old Win 3.11 box to get my games to play, played around with config.sys and autoexec.bat a bit. Other than that I didn't start actual programming until 5 years ago when I got out of the ARMY and went back to school. Been one year since I graduated now. Sorry I'm not the boy prodigal programming at 2 like some of you :p